I apologise if my comments implied you were speculating, no offence was intended. All I was trying to say (perhaps not very well) was that in general there is so little information known and, with respect to Adrian Derbyshire, what there is appears to be mostly just hearsay rather than cold hard fact.

Your knowledge of Mountain Course procedures is far greater than mine and you are right in as much as a significant threat to the event is certainly something worthy of comment, however, perhaps most feel like me that there isn't really too much they can comment on until they really know what happened and where the faults lie.